Justin’s Japan: Nippon in New York — Asa Akira, ‘Monkey Business,’ Jero @ Japan Day, Peelander-Z
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Insatiable New Yorker Asa Akira’s literary debut is available May 6. (Grove Press)
By JQ magazine editor Justin Tedaldi (CIR Kobe-shi, 2001-02) for Examiner.com. Visit his Japanese culture page here for related stories.
As spring continues and the weather continues to warm, New Yorkers can enjoy activities all over the city both indoors and out.
May 2-3, 7:30 p.m.
Veggetti, Kato and Nakamura Project IX – Pleiades
Japan Society, 333 East 47th Street
$30, $24 Japan Society members
Two Japanese tour de force artists, acclaimed musician Kuniko Kato, praised by Steve Reich as a “first rate percussionist,” and dancer Megumi Nakamura, internationally known since her days with Jiří Kylián’s Netherlands Dance Theater, explore the mesmerizing scores of legendary 20th century composer Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001). Project IX – Pleiades, which features one of Xenakis’ most complex and ambitious pieces, Pléiades, is a multimedia work delivered through live performance and a state-of-the-art sound/projection installation. Directed by Italian choreographer Luca Veggetti, one of the featured artists in the 2014 NY PHIL BIENNIAL. The Friday, May 2 performance is followed by a MetLife Meet the Artists Reception.
Saturday, May 3, 2:00 p.m.
Monkey Business: Japan/America Writers’ Dialogue
Asia Society, 725 Park Avenue
$15, $12 seniors/students, $10 Asia Society and PEN members
In conjunction with PEN World Voice Festival 2014! For the past three years PEN World Voices and Asia Society have provided a place for dialogues between established and upcoming writers in the United States and Japan. This year Laird Hunt and Matthew Sharpe join Toh EnJoe and Hideo Furukawa for another exciting and provocative cross-cultural literary encounter between Japanese and American writers. Moderated by Motoyuki Shibata and Ted Goossen, editors/translators of Monkey Business, the English-language anthology of newly translated Japanese writing, now celebrating its fourth edition.Ticket price includes a copy of the book and signing following the program. For additional free readings taking place in Manhattan and Brooklyn, click here.
Tuesday, May 6
Insatiable: Porn—A Love Story by Asa Akira
$25 MSRP
At age 28, Asa Akira has already led an extremely unusual life. Born in New York and raised in Japan as a pre-teen, then coming of age at the prestigious United Nations International School in Manhattan, she eschewed the academic aspirations of her classmates and soon was earning a good living by stripping and working as a dominatrix at a sex dungeon. Akira has now built up a reputation for being one of the most popular, hardworking, and extreme actors in the adult entertainment industry, winning dozens of awards and appearing in nearly 400 films to date and the popular DVDASA podcast. In her debut book, Akira provides an inimitable voice from the inside in a world where porn is increasingly becoming part of the mainstream.
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